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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Go to Rio in Gaithersburg MD the restaurants are packed with HS and College kids. It is outdoor but no one really social distancing - so why no school? [/quote]

College kids usually aren’t in school by June.

In this area, seniors stop attending in May.

School is over on one week for K-11 anyway.[/quote]

You missed the point the pp was making.  They aren't distancing anyway so there is no reason for school not to start back in the fall.[/quote]

Lack of social distancing this week should not force us to make a decision now about schools in Sept. certainly people were eating in restaurants, packing malls, and going to school in late February even as we knew the risks. And then 100,000 of us died. And many previously young and healthy people remain ill with fatigue, respiratory impairment, and cognitive effects. Cases of the Kawasaki-like condition in children are climbing and no one knows if long term effects are possible, but scientists are concerned that this might contraindicated the vaccine for children since antibodies are what spark the overreaction and inflame their hearts.

We should make a decision in August based on August rates of infection, what school systems have managed to do in terms of precautions, and above all else science. Not what humans impulsively do because they are bored, anti-science, or making a political statement.[/quote]

Just for the record, arguing for assuming a certain amount of risk in order to reopen schools has nothing to do with being "anti-science". This is not a purely scientific discussion. It is a discussion about what level of risk is acceptable in order to resume certain essential functions of society, such as school.

As for the science, neither Kawasaki nor the CFS symptoms or lingering respiratory problems (how long-term they will last we cannot know yet) that a small number of people infected with Covid experience are not specific to this virus. They can result from many viruses. We are just seeing a large number of infections with this coronavirus at the same time and therefore these cases are making the news. They should not be used to spread alarmism as the PP does. (I am loosely quoting an article by an epidemiologist I read a few weeks ago, who certainly was not "anti-science".)[/quote]

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